Scarce Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case, Purse, Souvenir of 1867 Paris Expo Banker's folio This is more often true

This is more often true than not

The box into which her original portrait is installed is a superb layering of paint and varnish

Made of paper

script on the top and the one on the bottom reads "Gacon-Duchesne

regal lion head mascaron figures & solid mother of pearl handled knives

Scarce Antique French Tortoise Shell Cigar or Spectacles Case, Purse, Souvenir of 1867 Paris Expo Banker's folio This is more often trueA superb and increasingly scarce souvenir of the 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris a fine Second Empire tortoiseshell gentlemans cigar case inset with an oval glomis miniature of the great elliptical Palais on the Champ de Mars, Ecole Militaire in distance. The reverse painted view on glass (eglomise) captures the sweeping arcaded faade and exhibition grounds in remarkable detail, a refined memento of Napoleon IIIs grand international fair. Unlike